Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 14:17:53 -0800 From: Pete Shipley <shipley@dis.org> To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there a speech synthesizer for FreeBSD 2.0.5? Message-ID: <199511012218.OAA01883@merde.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 01 Nov 1995 14:32:29 %2B0000. <199511011432.GAA26116@ix3.ix.netcom.com>
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>I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5 and was wondering if there's a package or >port out there that can synthesize speech and output it through the >soundcard? I.e. if I feed the program a file name or text on standard >input, it will speak it. The voice doesn't have to be English-like at >all -- in fact, for my purposes, a computer/robot-like voice would >really sound cool. So, does anyone know of a program that can do >this? I didn't really see anything on my CDROM that looked promising. >I have programs for Linux, but suspect that the sound drivers (even >though they're both written by the same person) are probably vastly >incompatible, and porting it would be a nightmare. > >-- I wrote one a while back (back == '88) but never finished it, it used a public domain test to phoneme converter that did not work to well thus 80% of the words were from a local exceptions table (and the phoneme converter ended up as a fall through for unknown words). I am not sure if I have the code around anymore but I can look around if you want.... -Pete
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